Tim Curley

Leaving a Blacksburg restaurant Saturday evening, Virginia Tech athletic director Jim Weaver heard the sad news: Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno was near death. Sad, but to Weaver, not surprising. Weaver played for and coached under Paterno at Penn State, and he watched helplessly over the last two-plus months as Paterno lost his job over sexual abuse charges against former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky and subsequently fought lung cancer. “I just can’t believe it happened the way it happened,” Weaver said Sunday morning, hours after Paterno’s passing. “The whole scene back to early November, it makes one think that his heart was broken the...

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